Sliding door for railway-cars.



@Patgntd June 17, I I902.

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. (Application med 1511.20, 1902.

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JOHN PLAYER, OF TOPEKA, KANSAS.

SLIDING DOOR FOR RAILWAY-CARS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 702,742, dated June 17,1902.

Application filed January 20, 1902. Serial No. 90,374. (No model.) I A To a whom it may concern; A 1

Be it known that I, J OHN'PLAYER, a citizen of the United States of America, anda resident of Topeka, county of Shawnee, and State I outstanding brackets bolted to the car body and so located as to engage the bottom of the door. I p

The object of my invention iscto improve the construction ofsuch doors by dispensing with the outstanding guide-brackets referred to and to provide in lieu thereof a pairof engaging strips, one of which is securedto the bottom of the door and the other to the body of the car and which serve the twofold function of a door-guide andlweather-guard. v

The invention consists of the novel features hereinafter described andclaim'edand is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, form in g a part of this -specification, and in which--- 13 is secured to the car-body below and extendingentirely across the doorway, one of its edges, and preferably its lower edge, as shown, being spaced apart from the car side. A U-shaped guide and weather-guard strip 12 is secured by one of its flanges to and extends entirely across the bottom of the inner face of the door, so that its outerflange extends back of the strip 13. I

By means of the guide and guard-strips described the dooris properly guided,the'interior of the car protected from the weather, dust,

and cinders, and the cumbersome outstanding brackets are dispensed with, andin addition the guide-strips are hidden from view, and hence the door is rendered securelagainst thieves, as the bolts holding the two strips cannot'be turned while the door is in place.

I claim as my inventionp 1. In combination, a car body having a door-opening, a sliding door therefor, a pair of interlocking strips one thereof being se. cured to the bottom of the door and the other thereof being secured to the car-body.

2. In combination, a car-bodyhaving a door-opening, a sliding door therefor, a pair of interengaging strips, one thereof being channeled, one of said strips being secured across the bottom'of I the door and'the other strip being secured to the car-body below the door-opening. I

3. In combination, a car-body anda sliding door, a jdependin'g strip secured -to the body and below thecar-door opening, gand an elongated strip secured to thedooral'ong the bottom thereof and extending' upwardly behindthefirst-named strip.

4. In, combination, a car-bodyand-a sliding door, a strip secured to the car-body across and below the doorway and having one edge spaced apart from the body, and a U-shaped strip of a length substantially that of the width of the door and secured to the inner face thereof and inclosing the firstnamed strip between its flanges.

5. In combination, ai'car-bodyand a slid ing door, a U-shaped strip secured-to the inner face of the door across its'bottom and having its flanges upturned, and a stripsecured to the car-body across-the'doorway,its lower edge projecting into the channel of the first-named strip.

6. In combination, a car-body having a door-opening, a sliding door therefor the bottom ofwhich projects below the door-opening and is spaced from the car-body, a depending.

strip secured to the body across and below the door-opening and having its lower edge said flanges extendinginto the space between located between the bottom of the car-door the car-body and the strip secured thereto.

and the car-body and spaced apart from the p body, and an elongated U-shaped strip se- JOHN PLAYER 5 cured through one of its flanges to the inner Witnesses:

face of the door and inclosing the first-men- W. O. PEYTON,

tioned strip between its flanges, the other of FRANK MITCHELL. 

